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Types

Types

- [Eric] That bolt video was pretty long, so I stopped it. I want to do one more thing with this bolt. Select it; let's click edit family. Under properties, let's go to family types. Now under family types, I want to make a bunch of these. So b is our bolt size basically, so let's click on new type. And well, Rod Size is what we'll go with. So let's type in one inch, hit OK. Let's grab a new one, say .5 inches, click OK. Rod size .5 inches. Okay, just kind of move this out of the way just to make sure everything's working. Click apply. Let's make another one. Let's call it 1.5 inches. Hit okay. Rod size 1.5 inches. Hit apply, very cool. Let's make another new one. Two inches- rod size will be two inches, apply. Let's make one more. 2.5, actually we'll make two more. 2.5 inches. You see what we're doing here, right? Thing's big, let's make a big three inch one. New type, three inch. That's the mamba…

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